- Collecting, analyzing, and disseminating strategic and tactical intelligence reports within the Agency and to other law enforcement officials nationwide;
- Updating national databases with collected information on smugglers, informants, and counterfeit operations;
- Utilizing a variety of automated information systems for gathering intelligence information gathering and reporting on trends and patterns.
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)/ Task Force Agent (TFA).
Border Patrol Agent-Intelligence
Acting SBPA Montilla 956-655-9037
Full Time (50-60 hours worked per week).
GS 12/7 $84,197.00 USD
March 2020- Present.
- Responsible in Inter-agency collaboration with other Federal, State, and Local law enforcement agencies.
- Responsible in assisting the agency in researching and providing analytical assistance.
- Assisting the group as translator and using my Spanish/English bi-lingual skills.
Rio Grande Valley Sector/Sector Intelligence Unit-Alien Smuggler Identification & Deterrence (RGV/SIU ASID).
Border Patrol Agent-Intelligence
SBPA George Ramirez 956-624-7034
Full Time (50-60 hours worked per week).
GS 12/6 $84,197.00 USD
August 2018-March 2020
- The objective of the ASID Unit is to identify, disrupt, and degrade Transnational Criminal Organizations.
- Supervised a team of 5 members.
- Effectively and systematically reduce TCOs smuggling operations by bringing all members(foot-guides, caretakers, mules, scouts, and load drivers) operating within the Rio Grande Valley Area Of Responsibility to the proper law enforcement resolution through the use of agents specialized in interviewing and interrogation techniques.
- Effectively and systematically reduce the use of fraudulent birth certificates/passports/legal documents or false claim through the use of agents' specialized in interviewing and interrogation techniques in English and Spanish skills.
- Develop Target files, Identify potential sources of information, act as a liaison with other enforcement entities and strategic partners. Identify false documents.
- Review several complex immigration cases on a daily basis with the intent to minimized and stop the flow of people with the intent to present fraudulent documents in order to receive an immigration status. Create written and detailed reports while working with HSI agents and pursuing Federal prosecution for anyone who presents fraudulent documents.
Field Intelligence Team- West (FIT-W) under cover.
Border Patrol Agent-Intelligence
SBPA Francisco Gardea 915-490-0668
Full Time (50-60 hours worked per week).
GS 12/6 $84,197.00 USD
October 4, 2015-August 2018.
- Experience in conducting surveillance in plain clothes (undercover operations) to maximize on raids, seizures, and the disruption and the dismantling of illegal aliens and narcotic smuggling organizations.
- Responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating strategic and tactical intelligence reports within the Agency and to other law enforcement officials nationwide.
- Responsible for updating and analyzing national databases with collected information on smugglers and associates in the United States.
- Responsible for utilizing a variety of automated information systems for gathering intelligence information gathering, and reporting on trends and patterns.
- Responsible in Inter-agency collaboration with other Federal, State, and Local law enforcement agencies. Experience in briefing multiple agencies in an operations plan.
- Key member of numerous prosecution, administrative alien smuggling and illegal narcotic cases.
- Responsible in disrupting and dismantling human stash houses located throughout the Western side of the Rio Grande Valley Sector. Averaged in dismantling one to three houses a week.
- Experience in enhanced strategic interviewing skills in English/Spanish language.
- Experience in briefing and developing operational plans.
- Experience in working with obtained intelligence and eliciting information from confidential sources and confidential source handlers.
- Experience in apprehending, arresting, interviewing, and interrogating person suspected of violations of the law.
- Experience in executing search warrants and warrants of an arrest.
- Called in to testify in State of Texas cases.
- Responsible in collecting, developing, processing and disseminating field information and field intelligence.
- Experience in developing operational plans and determining investigative priorities of cases.
- Experience in long term/complex Federal investigations, organizing evidence for presentation to prosecution officials and called in to testify in court.
- Experience as a group in submitting a warrant to the AUSA to install a tracking device to follow a well known smuggler. The operation was a success in discovering other unknown human stash houses affecting the Rio Grande Valley Area Of Responsibility . Experience in installing the tracking device in the smuggler's vehicle.
Field Training Officer (FTO)
Border Patrol Agent
SBPA Alberto Olivares 956-285-1103
Full Time (50-60 hours worked per week).
GS 12/6 $84,197.00 USD
August 2013-January 2015
- Supervised incoming U.S. Border Patrol Trainees during their 3 month post-academy field training program. Supervised and conducted a human resource role for successfully graduate four classes as a Field Training Officer.
- Responsible for generating weekly field observation reports for every trainee.
- Responsible for creating their bi-weekly work schedule, and approve annual leave.
- Responsible in teaching, mentoring, and managing new trainees in every aspect of our policies and procedures, teach our Area of Responsibility, and how to conduct high and low risk traffic stops, and tracking skills.
- Responsible in teaching the trainees to how effectively seized illegal narcotics along the border area, and how effectively create administrative and criminal I-44 narcotics cases.
- Responsible in teaching the trainees to how apprehend and create administrative and criminal G-166 Criminal/Alien Smuggling cases.
- Responsible to how to process and the creation of many different types of immigration files.
- Responsible in how to conduct and operate day and night operations, and most importantly how to become successful in their career as permanent U.S. Border Patrol Agents.
